How to understand Buddhist scriptures?

As a pure Buddhist, you must be truly firm in the Buddha, guard the Three Jewels. The blessing has many meanings: One is offering, providing nourishment for monks and nuns to teach the Buddha; second is the diligent practice; The third is the practice of Buddhism as a representative of all people, encouraging people to direct, take refuge as a disciple of the Buddha.

QUESTION:  I go to the door a few years, do know each other every little thing. I also recite the Buddha, meditate, and also chant great compassion. I do not even go to any depth of the practice or recite the Buddha or meditate before sitting calmly. Classics are also read but not much because I think primarily practice before repair, after doing good to help people, help parents home. 

However, grace has some friends on the Internet are interested in the classics, they can read the sutras, listening to the whole day do not bored and told the children to listen to the many new to retreat, to understand the Buddha , the best new to avoid the heart. However, I do not have free time like you because you have to deal with family business. I ask if practitioners need to hear all the scriptures? Should you listen to business all day so called? How do you understand Buddhist scriptures? If you do not listen to Buddhist scriptures, then how? Thank you!

ANSWER:

Buddhist scriptures are eighty-four thousand methods widely popular in the world of the world, the sentient beings are also borderless karmic obstacles and many disabled nature, but also falls in the eighty-four thousand beings, each sentient beings have eighty four thousand karma. It is said that the nature of beings is boundless, but the Buddha's law is boundless to counter diseases that cause sentient beings to be purified, to cease the suffering of greed. In the Nikaya Pitaka there is no mention of the Buddhist scriptures in the eight thousand and four thousand disciplines, but in the section of the Elderly Sangha, 1024, the Ministry of Buddhism, the Buddha taught, as follows:

I received from the Buddha,

Eighty two thousand,

Also received from bhikkhus,

Two thousand more,

A total of eight thousand,

We are the transference of ...

Indeed, the word Buddhist eighty four thousand methods, including 82,000 of the Buddha and 2,000 Dharma living of monks. This is the only Buddhist scriptures that 84,000 teachings, the Buddha said that the Buddha is boundless, the Buddha is as market as a drug, the old age of special disease treatment of sentient beings. For example: If beings are empty, the Buddha taught Bell; sentient beings, the Buddha taught wisdom; Sentient beings are taught meditation meditation; Mistaken beings are the luminous light in every dark soul of beings, making them close to the Dharma that escapes samsara, rhythmic evolution and timely integration into a calm lifestyle. .

According to the Buddhist doctrine of the Doan Trung, the time when Buddha Shakyamuni came to attain enlightenment as the Dharma Master of the preaching of the preaching of the Buddha, the Buddhist scriptures mainly make beings to practice and liberate. However, the teachings of Lord Buddha were divided into three periods to know the nature of the living beings, just how the practice was enlightened.

1. Period of correct Dharma

Dhamma, high, pure, two parts Ly and Hidden

Lý: The meaning of Buddhist do not go wrong, not evil puppet. From the beginning to the end, there is a pure nature, always make sentient beings free, the criterion of sentient beings is the elimination of samsara, so the call is the reason.

Body: France, that is legal protection in the Three Jewels. The body of the Dharma is also included in the four dharmas, namely the teachings of bliss, the rules for the Buddhas and the followers of the Buddha. The four principles are:

- Teaching is the language of the sentences of the Buddhas.

- Li is the meaning in the teachings.

- Hanh is in the sense that in the Buddhist teachings that Buddhist practice.

- Fruit thanks to the practice of wisdom that results.

Generally speaking, the Buddha's teachings have the capacity to make sentient beings eliminate the purity of the body in order to enter the Buddhist world. At this time, the monks near the Buddha heard the practice of meditation as the Buddha taught, should call the Buddha.

In the time of the Buddha

statue of the Buddha , the same, Dhamma is like the Dharma, but less times. 

Practitioners are many but few are religious. Listening to the teachings of the Buddha is much but there is no enlightenment. If there are only like the same Buddha, not like the Dharma. The period of the dharma is also the time of the great Buddhist calendar of Buddhist teachings, integrating into the life line, entering the Buddhist belief countries more than Buddhist monks. At this time, the Patriarchs spread the teachings, deformed many many healers, the practice is reduced, for the merits of spreading the teachings, the enlightenment enlightenment only on the work, Understanding the Buddha but do not do as Buddha. Therefore, the enlightenment is also very little, and if there is only the image, not the Buddha.

3. Period of Dharma

Mite is decaying. Dhamma in the period of decline, human beings were far too Buddhist. The more evil people, the pure and the less pure, so few people cultivate enlightened. At the end of Dharmas also very difficult to practice, because sentient beings are not free minded that sit study ethics to cultivate. Many people who built temples, struggled with rights, power, divided the two sides to kill each other, there is no place to find american desert scene to attain enlightenment, but only people love the material, service For myself, the glory of the skin of the meditation center, making the meditation door jargon, who do not know what the main evil, the monk eat meat and wine, little known elaborate practice.

So in the era of legal practice, people chanting, reading business, business studies are many but gerontological evidence is not there, or there are too little oi than the legal period. Time Dharma, people only understand the Dharma and propagation, not the new enlightened religion. Therefore, there are no religious practitioners, there are no enlightened people, only people who volunteer to lead the teachings, spread the Buddhist teachings wrong and not clearly defined. Many people who violate the doctrine, precepts of the Buddha that still do not know, also called the teacher.

Your spiritual practice

Also praise you have great spiritual practice, tu many disciplines, read many business, not the same monks and nuns in the forest meditation. But we "read the question", find out why the Buddha went the right path for his liberation. Chanting, studying business is good, but there are also "multiple" on the reception of business, especially the words Buddhist do not know what direction that religious practice. 

Knowing sometimes makes our minds heavy, it is difficult to describe all the aromas of the business elite. Knowing many but not digesting, logically resolved to make the reader as a bookcase, see many business as a beaver eating books. The book is damaged, but no legal solution at all.

Read many good or bad books

But to read and learn from low to high, from the decade as the book "Buddhist school of ecclesiastical letters", the book "Buddhist Studies" of the Most Venerable Thich Thien Hoa, the book "Essential Buddhist Studies" of the Most Venerable Thich Meditation Center, "History of Buddha Shakyamuni", "The history of 33 monks of Tây Thiên Đông Độ", "History of Buddhism in Vietnam". Learning to read these books when the new school to the "redundancy" is the Nhon, Thien, Legacy, Legacy and the Bodhisattva. As far as the Mahayana sutras are concerned, they also have to go through 10 to 15 years, you will be Buddhist monks.

Do not go into the shrine to read the books Kim Cang Bat Nha, Hoa Nghiem, Niet Con Diem, Xa Lua, Duy Thuc ... will certainly make you unbalanced on the mind.

On the other hand, it is unlikely that you study a lot of scriptures to practice, including monks and nuns who have studied high, multi-literary, Buddhist rings to study many Buddhist scriptures who rarely discuss the law, go to the Pure Land, meditation retreat, retreat. It seems that I no longer think about practicing myself in my spiritual practice. This is a great harm to the Buddhists, many know the scandal, solitude, know less difficult to understand not understand the Buddha, there is no way to go to the destination.

No more practice (dharma)

Many actions to distract, reflecting many items will lose mindfulness. Based on the elaborate times in the place where Buddhist monastic practice. In the temple of the North, morning mourning Mausoleum Mausoleum, afternoon elaborately chanting Amitabha, Red List of refreshing, evening chanting Amitabha, or business Monastery. Occasional opening ceremony of chanting sutra, the ceremony of chanting the Tibetan sutras, the chanting of the Lotus Sutra. 

The Pure Land Pagoda recites the title of the Buddha at 23 o'clock, the pagoda Zen, the monastery Mendicants are sitting meditation is not recited, the tantric temples recite the secret ... So in the temple, the monastery there are 3 simple practices; One is meditation, the other is Buddhist meditation, three is the secret language. You are the only Buddhist should develop mind chanting as the temple chanting, your practice will be very diligent and effective because do not practice the dharma.

The Buddhist should not now this law enforcement, tomorrow the other law, now receiving meditation, apricot receipt tomorrow, tomorrow received secretary, but should choose a practice for maturity, or meditation, or tu net, secret. In the countryside is the sentence: " Tu tu dien, will attain all legal " is. Tu a French language to purify the body, the pure tongue of purity, the totality of the law, the law to return to one thing, making the consistent contemplation of other dharmas arise pure. At the time, the benefits, spiritual benefits, the mystery arise, the new healing made you more diligent effort.

In Dong Nai, a Buddhist temple in Bien Hoa City, there are many legal changes: the abbot, the Zen monk, teach the Pure Land pupils, the procession of Tibetan masters, lost direction, do not know how to practice properly, become a legal disorder, the dharma. In the end, the Buddha taught "disciples of the Buddhist monks", causing the Buddhist to disturb the Dharma, tu "dharma".

Do Buddhist, do not choose the law, study the religion for many, eventually lost direction, or have or good are good but do not know how to choose the right course.

Please quote an anecdote: 

" An old man took people across the river. One day, it was raining and windy, the boat was overturned, but fortunately everyone including you all knew how to swim, everyone to swim to shore. The process of swimming to remove all the luggage to be light and escape the "drowning" drowning in only one Master a fruit burden, while sinking, I was worried about the economy and the cold rain storm, he was "drowned" drowning under the burden of regret in .

Sinking, people leave all luggage only to escape escape should be living, private master for business sorrow drowning. Gnostics do not expect to read business for many new enlightenment. Enlightenment is enlightenment, enlightenment not read the chanting. Reading chanting is only beneficial for the wise part of the world, but does not help you free. To be liberated must choose the dharma, in choosing not necessarily abrasive history as the world, because of increasing the ego, high sewer congestion, stopping your spiritual path.

Chanting, reading many sutras

The recitation of many sutras is very beneficial, one is to make the mindfulness of the practice, the practice of healing; Second is to clean up karmic offenses (after a light heart massage ceremony); Third is to make the wisdom of birth, wisdom of birth, the higher the criterion of liberation. However, sometimes the viewer is not sure that he is good at it. In the world, what work is beneficial to all harm, including the Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist teachings. Sometimes it is also the Buddha's teaching spoken by him, but errors make the listener misunderstandings, poor for his disciples. 

The teachings of the Buddha are also handed down, but the transmission of short-sightedness in a particular way creates the local environment, the birth of the congregation, which causes the followers to follow the same way, also birth conceited. Reading the business does not understand anything but claiming to be a magician, lecturer, but not practicing practicing alms. Unfortunately, when transmitting to the disciples, the disciples of the Buddha also born conceited soul, also read nearly all intellectual discourse, all of the three sacred, but not spiritual. There is no elaborate process, not a little wisdom, how to have the basis to help cultivators into true meditation, what to say about the Buddha to become enlightened.

Y economic school, the glass that also very difficult

That in the meditation center there is a sentence: " Y business is the third meaning of the Buddha oan, the most self-dissident into the theory ." Chanting for many, study business for good, but accept the business oan for three generations of Buddhas. For example, in the Book of Monks, the Buddha taught: " One who professes the name of the Avalokitesvara, asks for a son, and begs his daughter to be a daughter. Not to be burned, to water is not submerged ... That is the person reciting the title of Quan The Glory is to attain complete compassion (girl), wisdom (son). fire is not burning, the fire here is fire "sex", the water here is water "craving" That is to recite Quan Yin Yin will not have sex, craving the world again be free of suffering. Thus, the business who understand the business, understand the Buddha's mind is not "oan memories" for the Buddha.

However, if you do not base on the Buddhist teachings to practice, or say the business speaks for people who do not rely on the Buddha's teachings. For example: If you do not read verbatim Pho Mon verses on: " The specialized maintenance concept titles Avalokitesvara born son pleading shall be son, a daughter begged the daughter. Who recite Avalokitesvara into the fire does not burn, the water does not sink ... ", to solve the economic reasons for people to practice listening comprehension that you remove the prayer, or at least a word alone It is also a violation of "the same with the theory".

You "study business" just enough to practice, your friend is advised to "study business" so much to be more easy to understand. In the world of commentary as such, it is not sure because when "business study" just enough to practice than "business study" much. Because "business study" just enough to make you have time to practice, "study business" is busy "study business" do have free time to practice. Besides, you are "the business of the" should have the holder of the "business canal", read to keep the economy in the "business canal" has no practice meditation.

Reading chanting is?

Buddhist practitioners must understand Buddhism, Dharma is the Triune Buddhist. When listening to the preacher lecture where, if there are vehicles to develop the mind to listen to practice, or diligent study catechism to understand the Buddhist language profound knowledge of the Buddha. However, it should not "accept" that confusion, to know the Buddha is not a means to build the treasure of knowledge for sentient beings as a basis for tu tu not far away from the Chief Justice. As in the Cicada Vajradhara Buddhist teachings: Tu Bodhi, do not let Tathagata mean that "I have the sermon." You do not think so. Why? Because if someone said that: Tathagata is the sermon is to say the Buddha, do not understand the words I say. Bodhi, sermon that no law to any theory,

The practitioner in the process of making disciples of the Buddha has refrained from the Three States, life preserving the five worlds, the Eight-fold tu tu boys, good tu tu learned the Buddha's teachings then. In addition, we have to study Buddhist teachings, learn basic Buddhist, cultivate some knowledge of Buddhism to have a basis to identify where the main, where evil, mainly learning the Three Teachings, study, five teaching to progress.

The process of learning the Dharma is not to teach the Dharma, the language, the Buddhist language to make you multiply, ie use the Dharma to digest progress, apply the Buddhist teachings into daily life, from the members. The understanding of the Dharma must have a basis for true progress to feel non-repudiation, repeated several times as " the parrot can speak human language but not human beings ." Should not see the teachings of the Buddha as a basis of philosophy, see the Buddhist teachings are the place to study translation, release sales ... If you do not cling to the above, you still read many sutras on the advice to tons of practice.

Buddhists need to understand the teachings

According to some of the commentary in the "Road to the net", the language of the Great Professor of the time Dharma, Dharma gradually went to destruction, all the classic disappears. Why? Because beings lack merit, poor deep, there are no conditions to see the scriptures. No need to say the future, now the number of people do not have eyes, hands and diseases, so a word in the business also do not see. This is the karmic obstacle, this is the Dharma. People with eyes do not see and understand Buddhism clearly.

In the time of Dharma the scriptures destroyed, the first is the Surangama, then the other classics, the last is Amitabha. This Amitabha Sutra will stay in existence for more than a hundred years to reach all sentient beings. At the end of that time, the Amitabha Sutras also perished, only the six words "Namo Amitabha Buddha" in the life of a hundred years to all sentient beings. Over a period of time, only the four words "Amitabha Buddha" remained in the life of a hundred years of freedom from countless beings. Finally, the words "Amitabha Buddha" also disappear. Buddhism can be said to be completely destroyed (Road to the net)

According to the English language of the Great Teacher also said: Right to the anti-Dharma, the Buddha also the French only four words "Amitabha Buddha". But the four words is the "encapsulation" of the legal world. " Reciting Amitabha Buddha to maturity, the extreme teachings of the Tripitaka Tripitaka are also located in it. , eighty-eight almonds, pure tri-concentration in it all .

Have the charm, you are still studying Buddhism there is no obstacle or thinking.

People do not have the means to learn the Dharma

My friend! It is a precious Buddhist, a throne in the Three Jewels, both the mind of the three Buddhas, as well as the floral color of the missionaries of the Buddha. It is not easy for Buddhists to live side by side with the family, it is a noble thing. You can not ignore the teachings of Buddhism, you can not ignore the teachings. You can not refrain from the process of spiritual purification. However, the Buddhist life of your Buddhist must have a clear schedule of the work of religious life, the time when, when to do housework, social work is nothing to worry about the right job. false.

The problem of Buddhism, learning is to understand, everyday free time also need to read Buddhist scriptures to cultivate, learn the Buddha's teachings to expand the wisdom. Studying is also not so hard to accept the verse in business that birth diseases difficult to cure.

As a pure Buddhist, you must be truly firm in the Buddha, guard the Three Jewels. The blessing has many meanings: One is offering, providing nourishment for monks and nuns to teach the Buddha; second is the diligent practice; The third is the practice of Buddhism as a representative of all people, encouraging people to direct, take refuge as a disciple of the Buddha.

Sutra is the teaching of the Blessed One

Three precious Buddhist soul

World sentient beings

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